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...Frank Vavrin. Only about 17% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam regularly attend services on an average Sunday-35,000 men at 1,000 services. Chaplains estimate that more than 60% of the soldiers never go at all. One reason for the low attendance, suggests Air Force Captain Robert Cortez, is that the Viet Nam war is considerably less deadly than World War II, in which he saw combat duty in the Navy. Then, he says, "there was constant fear in so many cases-sitting all alone in a foxhole getting shelled, or on a rolling ship scanning...
...collections increased by 4% last year and finished 10% higher than 1961, as virtually every government reorganized its tax structures and collection systems. "Before the Alianza," says one Washington official, "many of the tax policies of Latin America hadn't changed since Cortez' time...
felt Like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise...
...George Crook; and his hero's final mission recalls the remarkable trek of Lieut. Charles Gatewood into the mountains of Mexico to talk the unpredictable Geronimo into surrendering. That surrender, as Horgan puts it, marked the end of "an Indian war that has raged since the days of Cortez." Matthew Hazard's Arizona was made safe for supermarkets and swimming pools, just as John Cozad's Platte River country was plowed into fields of immense fertility. Yet, as these books serve to recall, the land that challenged colonizer and cavalryman is still the same-still a measure...
Sightseeing Elevator. San Diego's 15-story, hilltop El Cortez Hotel, overlooking San Diego Bay, has been fitted with a $100,000 Plexiglas-walled cab that travels up the outside of the building. Built by Glass Elevator Corp. of San Diego, the transparent 16-passenger elevator rides on a hydraulic steel ram 16 inches in diameter and 175 feet long. It starts its upward journey in the hotel lobby, emerges through the second-floor roof above the building's setback, then heads for the 12th-and 15th-floor restaurants. Glass Elevator Corp., which has already lined up other...